Film Catalogue
Historical romance film
Austria/Luxembourg/Germany 2014
PRODUCTION COMPANY
coop99
DIRECTED BY
Jessica Hausner
SCREENPLAY
Jessica Hausner
PRODUCERS
Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Philippe Bober
CAST
Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller, Holger Handtke, Barbara Schnitzler, Alissa Wilms, Paraschiva Dragus, Peter Jordan, Katharina Schüttler, Gustav Peter Wöhler, Marie-Paule von Roesgen, Marc Bischoff
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich's subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness. AMOUR FOU is a "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
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